John Lennon

comprising handwritten answers to ten typed questions posed by Barbara Clark, relating to Lennon's activities as a peace campaigner, current affairs ("Q: What about the war in Ireland? Would you leave the British troops there or take them out? A: They should be thrown out!") and music, over 50 words in black marker pen, with a subscription and acorn motif drawn by Barbara Clark, 2 pages, folio, [1971], [with:] accompanying autograph letter signed by Lennon's assistant Diana Robinson enclosing the questionnaire and discussing Clark's acorn peace symbol, 2 pages, folio, [Tittenhurst Park], 15 April 1971, and original autograph envelope, folds (2)

"...Charles Manson should be made a General..."

A revealing and unpublished set of responses to the questions of a young fan, Barbara Clark (for whom see next lot), written when Lennon was working on Imagine. This was also the period of Lennon's greatest political engagement: a question related to the aftermath of the My Lai massacre elicited the caustic comment quoted above, when asked what he would like to say to today's young people he answers that "Communists are people too!", and he also encourages the "peace club" to join the upcoming May Day Protest in Washington, DC.